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Page 2, The St. Mary's College EMPATH, Thursday, March 18,1976
Letters To The Editor
To St. Mary’s College: The
Board of Trustees, the Administra­tion,
the Faculty, the Staff, and the
Student Body.
That is, To Whom It May Con­cern!
!!
I need help - I am being dis­criminated
against as a human
being!! My hands are trembling,
my blood is hot, my jaws are
begining to hurt, my mind is stew­ing,
my hairs are standing on end.
This cannot be. I think I am MAD!
I must be going crazy! Well well,
my my, sigh, take a breath, re­lax,
blow it out, Ahhhh, that felt
good, only I can assure myself that
I am not insane.
May I apologize for my absence,
during the ralley in which the
question regarding a student
representative was discussed. I
have recently been so wrapped up
in my own little world (the uni­verse)
that I was blinded and did
not see the need of my presence.
Nevertheless my heart goes out to
all those concerned with this situa­tion.
I must confess, however, that
at this point my sympathies are
swayed toward my fellow student,
and it is wiJkthem that I must take
a stand, for we are being dis­criminated
against as Human
Beings. (A unique creature indeed
whose thoughts have been develop­ing
and progressing for centuries
upon centuries). Clarification and
explanation are warrented and
holy bananas, may you see it
through my eyes.
I am a woman, sister, daughter,
cousin, friend, student, dance in­structor,
unknown author, citizen
of St. Mary’s County, citizen of the
United States, child of the uni­verse,
taxpayer, cashier, bar­tender,
Christian, first of first
Generation Greek born in the
United States. . . And anything and
everything that I decide to be. But I
will not be discriminated against
or be disrespected.
The majority of the student body
form what I can see are disre­spected
at St. Mary’s College. My
friends, it is not good. It is causing
depression, frustration, and in­feriority.
All this is from the fact
that we have no voice. Without a
voice, we have no rights, no control
of the matter at hand. The matter
at hand, our lives. As people,
human beings, in a democratic
society, something must be wrong
when we are not heard. Have we
not the right to display control over
our lives. Is deomocracy going
down the drain entirely? Perhaps I
should adopt a communist or so­cialist
attitude. Perhaps I should
adopt no view at all. Then maybe I
should also abandon my religious
view, and shall I also disregard my
need for the educational system
this country has to offer. (Maybe
dad is right and we should go back
to Greece . . .)
The Administration of St. Mary’s
College as working members of the
Educational System of The United
States and as an Institution faced
with the confusin of this day (mis­trust
of life, institutions, groups
and individuals) cannot claim the
Almighty right and control that is
apparently doing. How can the ad­ministration
deny us this right
when they are probably just as con­fused
as the rest of the nation and
world. You must admit and recog­nize
us as mature individuals that
are in control of our lives. We are
completely developed human
beings, with body, mind, heart, and
soul . Our morals, values, ethics
and ideals have long been esta­blished
and with us. It is our
perogative to keep them or dismiss
them. But J refuse to be molded
like a bowl of chocolate jello. I am
a melodios river, a star that shines,
a gentle gust of wind, the flameof
life, please, do not make me a
weeping willow, for limbs are limp,
my roots spread far, my trunk is
sturdy and all that is around me
will hear my sobs loud and clear.
Granted, there is that fraction of
the student body who may not
understand, but with your help and
the help of their fellow students,
there is hope. We are not children,
do not mother us, we need not your
warm breast, or Lionell’s security
blanket, but we do need a voice. We
are at St. Mary’s to expand our
minds in the direction we have
chosen for them, but do not insult
our intellects, and beings, we know
what is going on. If the administra­tion
can answer all questions:
What is Truth? What is righteous­ness?
What is Knowledge? What is
Reality? What is Love? What is
Life? What is Freedom: What is
the Way? etc. etc.
An never arouse an argument, or
question with anyone or among
themselves as a group, then per­haps
I am wrong, and I will with­draw
my complaint, never
question again, and apologize right
now!!!!
My fellow students what can I do,
what can I say to help, only this.
We must speak to our countrymen.
Ask them for help. Go to your
families, friends, advisors, repre­sentatives
etc. Life is too positive
and beautiful to feel this way, go
make this situation a puppet and
pull every string you can.
Sincerely yours,
Relieved I got it off my mind
Ms. Bertha Vanikiotis
One Y e o r A g o D i s e a s e
Dear Persons whom Edit.
Your interview, Vol. 3, Issue 9,
• with Dr. Jackson and aides seems
to illustrate Dr. Jackson’s ability
to forget facts. President Jackson
states he has “never been asked by
the Student Government” about a
student attending the boards
private meetings. During the fall
semester of 1974 informal
meetings were held between the
S.G.A. Executive Board and the
Administration. These meetings
were held once a month for ideas
and feelings to be exchanged
between two otherwise
non-speaking organizations. One
of the stipulations placed on these
meetings was they were to be off
the record. Two semesters ago Pat
Rlrier broke this understanding
and held Dr. Jackson accountable
for a statement about Andy
Chovanes. The Student Senate
censured Dr. Jackson for being
two faced (saying one thing in
private and another in public) but
also censured Pat for breaking a
trust.
At two of these meetings Dr.
Jackson was asked by S.G.A.
representatives, including myself,
nether it would be feasible to have
a student attend the Boards
committee meetings and the
Board’s closed meetings. He said it
was completely out of the
question.
The S.G.A. never put anything
in writing to Dr. Jackson refering
fo the Student Trustee. This was
because during these meetings and
also in a letter to Mr. Elder and
continued page 4 column 1
Dear Editor:
This campus is beset with a
disease. This disease has infected
every sector of this college, and
perhaps is still spreading. Hope­fully
the disease is not terminal
though already it has proved crip­pling.
The disease that I ’m talking
about is indirection and indecision.
It is found everywhere one looks on
campus, the administration, the
faculty, and the student body. To
put it simply, there are few people
around here who know what they
want to do, or even know what they
are doing. The administration pro­vides
the most blatant examples.
I think what most students are
taking as plots and plans to destroy
the nature of this school on the part
of the administation, is in reality
non-action and indecision. Presi­dent
Jackson offers the most
obvious example. I doubt most of
the actions that he has taken in the
past few years were deliberate
attempts to change the nature of
this school resulting from a con­spiracy
with the Board of Trustees.
I feel the changes were almost
accidental, resulting from mis­management
more than any other
cause. When Jackson first came to
this school he let its policy of
experimentation mean anything
goes. Eventually Jackson started
to catch flack when people began to
hear of some of the strange things,
bad, as well as good, that were
going on here. Jackson most likely
made the changes he did because
the Board of Trustees, who hold his
continued page 4 column 1
Jfeura Circles
it published bi-weekly by the students of St. Mary '* College of
Mery lend for the entire college community.
...............................................................••• Pat Elder
Ed,tor* ............ .......................* .....................Mikel Schwab
Bill Caffey
Sports Editor............................................. ...........Patrick Haskins
Staff..................................................Diane Harris Norine Death
Bill Wyatt Jim Deramus
Melvin Long field, Eric Wurzbacher
Mary Luces, Ellen Lecteir,
Donna Davis, Mark Gunther
Claude Thompson Pam Hite
It is our intention to report newsworthy events to the entire college community
in an objective manner. Letters to the Editor are accepted and encouraged.
The EMPATH will hold "open office.. 4:30 to 6:00 on Thirsdays.
During the controversy over the
academic policy change-over some
faculty members quietly ques­tioned
how much professors could
sympathize with students. The
question centered mainly on the
idea of recording failures.
One faculty member creatively
speculated that perhaps professors
would see things differently if it
was recorded on their permanent
records whenever a chapter of
their dissertation was rejected by
their supervisor.
Prof. Bill Anknor, Instructor in
Philosophy, and a member of the
Academic Policy Committee, was
akedxhow many chapters of his
dissertation had been rejected.
Prof. Anknor said he’d have to
think about it.
He confirmed the fact that the
number of Chapters rejected in a
dissertation were not recorded but
said he did not think this was
related to not recording failures of
courses.
The present gradng policy here
does not record class failures. The
Academic Policy Committee
recommended a new policy to the
Faculty. Under the new policy
failures would be recorded and
computed in a grade point average
(GPA). The faculty voted to accept
the policy which will go into effect
next fall.
There is no analogy between the
failing of a class and having a
chapter in a dissertation rejected,
according to Prof. Anknor. “The
analogy has problems. It ’s a dis­tortion
of the use of analogy,” says
Bill Ankner; 1
He points out that when a student
has to rewrite a paper it is not
recorded. The idea that the num­ber
of rejections should be re­corded,
Bill states, “is inaccurate
in that what’s important is whether
or not you get the degree.”
Professor ‘Red’ Davey was
sighted by Bill to be the origi­nator
of the class failure and chap­ter
reject comparison.
When asked about this Professor
Davey said he made the compari­son
jokingly. He went further to
say, “ I don’t see any point in
putting this in the paper.”
“I redid over half of dissertation,
that’s common,” Prof. Davey
said.
Also asked about the number of
rejected dissertation chapters was
Tom Stevens, Associate Professor
of History and member of the
Academic Policy Committee. Prof.
Stevens replied, “That’s a strange
ciuestion.” Prof. Stevens felt the re­jection
of a dissertatin chapter had
nothing to do with the failure of a
class. He said it’s “more equiva­lent
to a student consulting with a
professor before turning in a
paper.”
Profoessor Willoughby (Biology)
another member of the Academic
Policy Committee, also said dis­sertation
chapters were more
comparable to a student’s term
paper or independent study paper.
He said the chapter, “has to reach
a certain criteria. You keep work­ing
on it till it is accepted.” “It ’s a
requirement,” he added, “just like
a term paper in a course is a
requirement.”
“I can’t say that I ’ve had any
chapters rejected,” he responded
to the questin of his rejected chap­ters.
Professor Willoughby explained
that before a doctorate can be
obtained a dissertation must be
written. The dissertation must con­sist
of original research. A doc-torial
committee must approve of
each chapter of the dissertation.
The committee consists of spe­cialists
in the field of study. It goes
thru several revisions and it must
be defended orally by its writer.
There is no grade on a dissertation.
(More ‘News-Circles’page 5)

Page 2, The St. Mary's College EMPATH, Thursday, March 18,1976
Letters To The Editor
To St. Mary’s College: The
Board of Trustees, the Administra­tion,
the Faculty, the Staff, and the
Student Body.
That is, To Whom It May Con­cern!
!!
I need help - I am being dis­criminated
against as a human
being!! My hands are trembling,
my blood is hot, my jaws are
begining to hurt, my mind is stew­ing,
my hairs are standing on end.
This cannot be. I think I am MAD!
I must be going crazy! Well well,
my my, sigh, take a breath, re­lax,
blow it out, Ahhhh, that felt
good, only I can assure myself that
I am not insane.
May I apologize for my absence,
during the ralley in which the
question regarding a student
representative was discussed. I
have recently been so wrapped up
in my own little world (the uni­verse)
that I was blinded and did
not see the need of my presence.
Nevertheless my heart goes out to
all those concerned with this situa­tion.
I must confess, however, that
at this point my sympathies are
swayed toward my fellow student,
and it is wiJkthem that I must take
a stand, for we are being dis­criminated
against as Human
Beings. (A unique creature indeed
whose thoughts have been develop­ing
and progressing for centuries
upon centuries). Clarification and
explanation are warrented and
holy bananas, may you see it
through my eyes.
I am a woman, sister, daughter,
cousin, friend, student, dance in­structor,
unknown author, citizen
of St. Mary’s County, citizen of the
United States, child of the uni­verse,
taxpayer, cashier, bar­tender,
Christian, first of first
Generation Greek born in the
United States. . . And anything and
everything that I decide to be. But I
will not be discriminated against
or be disrespected.
The majority of the student body
form what I can see are disre­spected
at St. Mary’s College. My
friends, it is not good. It is causing
depression, frustration, and in­feriority.
All this is from the fact
that we have no voice. Without a
voice, we have no rights, no control
of the matter at hand. The matter
at hand, our lives. As people,
human beings, in a democratic
society, something must be wrong
when we are not heard. Have we
not the right to display control over
our lives. Is deomocracy going
down the drain entirely? Perhaps I
should adopt a communist or so­cialist
attitude. Perhaps I should
adopt no view at all. Then maybe I
should also abandon my religious
view, and shall I also disregard my
need for the educational system
this country has to offer. (Maybe
dad is right and we should go back
to Greece . . .)
The Administration of St. Mary’s
College as working members of the
Educational System of The United
States and as an Institution faced
with the confusin of this day (mis­trust
of life, institutions, groups
and individuals) cannot claim the
Almighty right and control that is
apparently doing. How can the ad­ministration
deny us this right
when they are probably just as con­fused
as the rest of the nation and
world. You must admit and recog­nize
us as mature individuals that
are in control of our lives. We are
completely developed human
beings, with body, mind, heart, and
soul . Our morals, values, ethics
and ideals have long been esta­blished
and with us. It is our
perogative to keep them or dismiss
them. But J refuse to be molded
like a bowl of chocolate jello. I am
a melodios river, a star that shines,
a gentle gust of wind, the flameof
life, please, do not make me a
weeping willow, for limbs are limp,
my roots spread far, my trunk is
sturdy and all that is around me
will hear my sobs loud and clear.
Granted, there is that fraction of
the student body who may not
understand, but with your help and
the help of their fellow students,
there is hope. We are not children,
do not mother us, we need not your
warm breast, or Lionell’s security
blanket, but we do need a voice. We
are at St. Mary’s to expand our
minds in the direction we have
chosen for them, but do not insult
our intellects, and beings, we know
what is going on. If the administra­tion
can answer all questions:
What is Truth? What is righteous­ness?
What is Knowledge? What is
Reality? What is Love? What is
Life? What is Freedom: What is
the Way? etc. etc.
An never arouse an argument, or
question with anyone or among
themselves as a group, then per­haps
I am wrong, and I will with­draw
my complaint, never
question again, and apologize right
now!!!!
My fellow students what can I do,
what can I say to help, only this.
We must speak to our countrymen.
Ask them for help. Go to your
families, friends, advisors, repre­sentatives
etc. Life is too positive
and beautiful to feel this way, go
make this situation a puppet and
pull every string you can.
Sincerely yours,
Relieved I got it off my mind
Ms. Bertha Vanikiotis
One Y e o r A g o D i s e a s e
Dear Persons whom Edit.
Your interview, Vol. 3, Issue 9,
• with Dr. Jackson and aides seems
to illustrate Dr. Jackson’s ability
to forget facts. President Jackson
states he has “never been asked by
the Student Government” about a
student attending the boards
private meetings. During the fall
semester of 1974 informal
meetings were held between the
S.G.A. Executive Board and the
Administration. These meetings
were held once a month for ideas
and feelings to be exchanged
between two otherwise
non-speaking organizations. One
of the stipulations placed on these
meetings was they were to be off
the record. Two semesters ago Pat
Rlrier broke this understanding
and held Dr. Jackson accountable
for a statement about Andy
Chovanes. The Student Senate
censured Dr. Jackson for being
two faced (saying one thing in
private and another in public) but
also censured Pat for breaking a
trust.
At two of these meetings Dr.
Jackson was asked by S.G.A.
representatives, including myself,
nether it would be feasible to have
a student attend the Boards
committee meetings and the
Board’s closed meetings. He said it
was completely out of the
question.
The S.G.A. never put anything
in writing to Dr. Jackson refering
fo the Student Trustee. This was
because during these meetings and
also in a letter to Mr. Elder and
continued page 4 column 1
Dear Editor:
This campus is beset with a
disease. This disease has infected
every sector of this college, and
perhaps is still spreading. Hope­fully
the disease is not terminal
though already it has proved crip­pling.
The disease that I ’m talking
about is indirection and indecision.
It is found everywhere one looks on
campus, the administration, the
faculty, and the student body. To
put it simply, there are few people
around here who know what they
want to do, or even know what they
are doing. The administration pro­vides
the most blatant examples.
I think what most students are
taking as plots and plans to destroy
the nature of this school on the part
of the administation, is in reality
non-action and indecision. Presi­dent
Jackson offers the most
obvious example. I doubt most of
the actions that he has taken in the
past few years were deliberate
attempts to change the nature of
this school resulting from a con­spiracy
with the Board of Trustees.
I feel the changes were almost
accidental, resulting from mis­management
more than any other
cause. When Jackson first came to
this school he let its policy of
experimentation mean anything
goes. Eventually Jackson started
to catch flack when people began to
hear of some of the strange things,
bad, as well as good, that were
going on here. Jackson most likely
made the changes he did because
the Board of Trustees, who hold his
continued page 4 column 1
Jfeura Circles
it published bi-weekly by the students of St. Mary '* College of
Mery lend for the entire college community.
...............................................................••• Pat Elder
Ed,tor* ............ .......................* .....................Mikel Schwab
Bill Caffey
Sports Editor............................................. ...........Patrick Haskins
Staff..................................................Diane Harris Norine Death
Bill Wyatt Jim Deramus
Melvin Long field, Eric Wurzbacher
Mary Luces, Ellen Lecteir,
Donna Davis, Mark Gunther
Claude Thompson Pam Hite
It is our intention to report newsworthy events to the entire college community
in an objective manner. Letters to the Editor are accepted and encouraged.
The EMPATH will hold "open office.. 4:30 to 6:00 on Thirsdays.
During the controversy over the
academic policy change-over some
faculty members quietly ques­tioned
how much professors could
sympathize with students. The
question centered mainly on the
idea of recording failures.
One faculty member creatively
speculated that perhaps professors
would see things differently if it
was recorded on their permanent
records whenever a chapter of
their dissertation was rejected by
their supervisor.
Prof. Bill Anknor, Instructor in
Philosophy, and a member of the
Academic Policy Committee, was
akedxhow many chapters of his
dissertation had been rejected.
Prof. Anknor said he’d have to
think about it.
He confirmed the fact that the
number of Chapters rejected in a
dissertation were not recorded but
said he did not think this was
related to not recording failures of
courses.
The present gradng policy here
does not record class failures. The
Academic Policy Committee
recommended a new policy to the
Faculty. Under the new policy
failures would be recorded and
computed in a grade point average
(GPA). The faculty voted to accept
the policy which will go into effect
next fall.
There is no analogy between the
failing of a class and having a
chapter in a dissertation rejected,
according to Prof. Anknor. “The
analogy has problems. It ’s a dis­tortion
of the use of analogy,” says
Bill Ankner; 1
He points out that when a student
has to rewrite a paper it is not
recorded. The idea that the num­ber
of rejections should be re­corded,
Bill states, “is inaccurate
in that what’s important is whether
or not you get the degree.”
Professor ‘Red’ Davey was
sighted by Bill to be the origi­nator
of the class failure and chap­ter
reject comparison.
When asked about this Professor
Davey said he made the compari­son
jokingly. He went further to
say, “ I don’t see any point in
putting this in the paper.”
“I redid over half of dissertation,
that’s common,” Prof. Davey
said.
Also asked about the number of
rejected dissertation chapters was
Tom Stevens, Associate Professor
of History and member of the
Academic Policy Committee. Prof.
Stevens replied, “That’s a strange
ciuestion.” Prof. Stevens felt the re­jection
of a dissertatin chapter had
nothing to do with the failure of a
class. He said it’s “more equiva­lent
to a student consulting with a
professor before turning in a
paper.”
Profoessor Willoughby (Biology)
another member of the Academic
Policy Committee, also said dis­sertation
chapters were more
comparable to a student’s term
paper or independent study paper.
He said the chapter, “has to reach
a certain criteria. You keep work­ing
on it till it is accepted.” “It ’s a
requirement,” he added, “just like
a term paper in a course is a
requirement.”
“I can’t say that I ’ve had any
chapters rejected,” he responded
to the questin of his rejected chap­ters.
Professor Willoughby explained
that before a doctorate can be
obtained a dissertation must be
written. The dissertation must con­sist
of original research. A doc-torial
committee must approve of
each chapter of the dissertation.
The committee consists of spe­cialists
in the field of study. It goes
thru several revisions and it must
be defended orally by its writer.
There is no grade on a dissertation.
(More ‘News-Circles’page 5)